Survival impossible at periscope depth.

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Posted by ROB T. from 162.10.138.197 on January 15, 2000 at 03:43:30:

In Reply to: How Indy survived the submarine trip to the island in Raiders posted by California Jones on January 14, 2000 at 12:08:51:

They only way for Indy to survive the trip was if the sub stayed on the surface. If the sub traveled at periscope depth Indy would succomb to hypothermia long before they reached the island.
If you remember last summer when JFK Jr. crashed into the ocean they reported that the longest anyone could hope to tread water before freezing to death was 36 hours.
The temp of the water Indy was traveling in would've been somewhere in the 70's, fine for a short swim, but being immersed in that temp for hours on end would cause the bodies core temp to drop to dangerous levels in a few hours.
The map that showed the sub traveling from where they crossed paths with the Bantu Wind and when they reached the island showed that they traveled several hundred miles. If Indy were up to his chest in that water for all that time he would either have been dead or severely hypothermic.
He really took a gamble that they would do all or most of their traveling at surface level.



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